So this is it! This is my last post in this blog. As I come to the end of my stint with this great company, I would close out this blog. Thanks to all the visitors, and thanks to the company for giving me the chance to giving vent my random thoughts in a platform like MSDN Blogs. My new address in blogosphere would be @ Windows Live Spaces. Thanks again, and so long!
P.S. I have received some queries from some friends whether the title of the post is to reflect my fooding habits, so just to clarify - here is the justification for those unacquainted with DNAs classic.
.NET - the coolest framework product in the world (IMHO) ......gets a cool new brand identity....and the new wave identity is COOL too!!
XmlDataSource class internally calls a private method called CreateCacheKey. Now, if you are using XmlDataSource without an ID, after upgrading the solution to ASP.NET 3.5, this might throw an exception - "When caching is enabled for the XmlDataSource that is not in the pages control tree it requires a UniqueID that is unique throughout the application." This is due to the absence of the UniqueID (which is read-only, but my experiment shows that setting the ID handles the same), which is used as part of the caching key, without which all instances would try to use same caching key. Setting a distinct ID solves this problem and the problem goes away.
Thanks and credits to http://forums.asp.net/p/1294664/2510357.aspx
Example.
XmlDataSource XmlSrc = new XmlDataSource();
XmlSrc.ID = "XmlSource1";
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Neat stuff!!
It doesn't get better than this ... Jeff on Silverlight :)
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Enjoy!
Visual Studio 2008 does not show Solution view when there is only one project in the Solution by default, which makes it difficult to add another project to the solution. This persists even when we add a new (blank) solution. The solution is to go to Tools>Options>Projects and Solutions and check "Always Show Solution" (which is unchecked by default).
Enjoy!
If you ever felt a need to perform a query to check for a particular text instance in all sources (SPs, functions, triggers et al) in your SQL 2000 db, chances are you might have already written this little goodie. But if you haven't and if you need some quick script to get this done for you, here's one I have been using for quite sometime and I gotta say, it works like a sweet charm! Best of luck!
SELECT [number], [TEXT], A.name
FROM syscomments B, sysobjects A
WHERE A.[id]=B.[id]
and TEXT like '%your text%'
ORDER BY [number]
GO
And here's the sql job part -
select S.name
from msdb.dbo.sysjobs J
inner join msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps
S
ON J.job_id=S.job_id
where command like '%your text%'
Web Services are the order of the day - and all the industry movers and shakers are betting big on them! But here's some authentic info on how web services are being used for good - and how they are driving down the costs. For starters, using Web services to streamline internal processes has reduced General Motor's vehicle design process from forty-eight to eighteen months - as stated by this HBS Working Knowledge feature.
However, with all its benefit and the concept of SaaS and its synergies to business strategies, the good old problem of "common standards" continue to challenge web services to become the next big thing...as told by this interview of Andrew McAfee.
The bottomline is, while Web Services provide a perfect stepping stone to integrate, centralize IT systems and bring about serious cost savings, it doesn't provide a magic solution to the age-old problems of system integration. The current hype cycle might lead people to jump into it looking for overnight gains, but the best way still is to analyze, define and design systems with diligence, and then, reap the benefits :) .
That said, used effectively, web services will lead the evolution of IT systems as greater business enablers in the days to come and will remain one of the main pillars of the Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 revolution, if you will!!
Asynchronous ASP.NET Web Services + ASP.NET Ajax / Silverlight enabled UI = Makes my day!!
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If you are used to installing your SQL objects into the database server using scripts and osql command, you may sometime encounter this message
Msg 2812, Level 16, State 62, Line 1
Could not find stored procedure 'S'.
The error message will be the first letter in the name of the sp/object that is failing. I had this issue and was about to pull out my hairs when, after a lot of searching, I found the solution! It seems that osql doesn't take Unicode as input (unless explicitly specified by -u switch, but I could not confirm that from the documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa213088(SQL.80).aspx ). To get around this, open the objects for which the installation is failing using a text editor, go to File>Save As and save with Encoding as ANSI.
Hope this helps someone out there lost with this bizarre issue.
This is an enticing story of evolution of software architecture to today's SaaS model .... published in
Microsoft Architecture Journal........
Gianpaolo Carraro tells the story in an unique fashion which I loved and hopefully you will too....follow the link
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb906059.aspx
Phishing has become a big concern - and it has started to hit Indians in large numbers. With the following two reports from ET - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Call_Centre_man_held_for_hacking_bank_account/rssarticleshow/2548793.cms and http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Phishers_get_smarter_keep_ICICI_clueless/rssarticleshow/2527034.cms , its very clear that Phishing is on big time in India. The targets are innocent, non tech-savvy elders who would seldom understand that ICICIBANK.com and domain1.com/iciciabc are different if the UI looks the same. The e-Zombies are wrecking havocs by exploiting these people.
It is highly recommended to use the features provided by the browser manufacturers to keep yourself safe from the same -
IE 7 (IE blog also gives a high-level overview of the protection process) - http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/09/463204.aspx
Firefox 2 - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/
Opera - http://www.opera.com/docs/fraudprotection/
However, its always recommended to rely on common-sense and also on the banks recommendation - i.e. never divulge your PIN online etc before even using e-banking even for the first time.
Can't resist making a non-technical post at this cool news! The business today-Mercer-TNS survey is out, and it has ranked us as the Best Company to work for in India - and all can be read here - http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2257&Itemid=1&issueid=13&limit=1&limitstart=1
It's a hell lot of fun.....Changing the world!!!
Although its a task you seldom would want to do, it might become a necessity when someone leaves the team on hurry/short notice. The way out is aptly described by Matthew at http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/archive/2007/01/08/undoing-a-checkout-that-belongs-to-another-user.aspx , and I just thought I would mirror the command to give it more live search-ability :)
tf undo /workspace:OtherUserWorkspaceName;OtherUserName $/Project/..../FileName.cs /s:http://yourtfsserver:8080
Also, much more details available at James Manning's blog
